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Haynes and Boone, LLP Richardson, TX Document Search Results (10) Sort by:  | The JOBS Act: The New “Crowdfunding” Exemption
Doug Hansen, David H. Oden; Haynes and Boone, LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 8, 2012, previously published on May 7, 2012 One of the most innovative and exciting sections of the new Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the “JOBS Act”) creates a new “crowdfunding” exemption from state and federal securities law registration. Through this new exemption, issuers and investors may communicate by...
|  | M&A in the Cloud
David H. Oden; Haynes and Boone, LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 30, 2012, previously published on April 19, 2012 During the past year and a half and continuing today, we are witnessing a surge in M&A activity which we believe is based (in large part) on the tremendous growth of the Cloud. Bloomburg reports that while 2011 M&A deal volume in the technology industry was greater than $200 billion, current...
| | Strategic Partnerships in the Cloud
William S. "Bill" Kleinman; Haynes and Boone, LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 30, 2012, previously published on April 19, 2012 The Cloud is all about flexibility, and so is partnering. Of the three ways to enter a new market, organic growth, acquisition and partnering, partnering has the advantages of being fastest to market and requiring the least capital. Assume, for example, that software Co. has big data technology...
| | Source Code Found Too Late in Software Copyright Infringement Case
Dustin T. Johnson; Haynes and Boone, LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 26, 2012, previously published on April 25, 2012 In a recent decision, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a “finders-keepers, losers-weepers” approach to copyright infringement. The court dismissed a copyright infringement case under the doctrine of claim preclusion because the original source code had been lost and...
| | The JOBS Act: Significant Changes for Raising Private Capital
Christina W. Marshall, David H. Oden; Haynes and Boone, LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 18, 2012, previously published on April 14, 2012 The new Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the “JOBS Act”), signed into law on April 5, 2012, contains a number of substantial revisions to U.S. securities laws that will affect the manner in which businesses may obtain private financing, including (among other things) removing the...
| | Third-Party Challenges to an Issued Patent Before the USPTO: The America Invents Act
David M. O'Dell; Haynes and Boone, LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 17, 2012, previously published on January 12, 2012 The America Invents Act was signed into law on September 16, 2011 and created several new post-issuance “review” procedures by which a third party can challenge the validity of a patent in an adjudicative proceeding before the PTO. While many of the procedures of post-grant review are...
| | Lipstick on a Pig—A Claim’s Preamble Does Not Confer Patentability on an Otherwise Unpatentable Process
Andrew S. Ehmke, Scott Jarratt; Haynes and Boone, LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 10, 2012, previously published on January 9, 2012 In CyberSource v. Retail Decisions (decided August 16, 2011), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that the claims in a software patent do not escape the patentability standards articulated in Bilski v. Kappos just by virtue of being drafted as so-called “Beauregard”...
| | Lipstick on a Pig: A Claim’s Preamble Does Not Confer Patentability on an Otherwise Unpatentable Process
Andrew S. Ehmke, Scott Jarratt; Haynes and Boone, LLP;
Legal Alert/Article December 26, 2011, previously published on December 22, 2011 In CyberSource v. Retail Decisions (decided August 16, 2011), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that the claims in a software patent do not escape the patentability standards articulated in Bilski v. Kappos just by virtue of being drafted as so-called “Beauregard”...
| | Practice Tips Under the Patent Reform Rules
Tom Chen, Dustin T. Johnson, Andrew Lowes, Jeffrey A. Wolfson; Haynes and Boone, LLP;
Legal Alert/Article September 21, 2011, previously published on September 16, 2011 The long anticipated America Invents Act (the “Act”) was signed into law today. However, given that certain provisions of the Act are now in effect while others do not come online until March 16, 2013, innovating companies and individuals should consider the impact and timing of those...
| | Patent Reform 2011: It Could Happen to You
Randall C. Brown, Tom Chen, Gregory P. Webb, Jeffrey A. Wolfson; Haynes and Boone, LLP;
Legal Alert/Article July 1, 2011, previously published on June 28, 2011 n June 23, 2011, the U.S. House of Representatives passed House Bill H.R. 1249 (the “Leahy-Smith America Invents Act”) by a vote of 304-117. This follows on the Senate’s 95-5 passage of bill S. 23 (the “America Invents Act”) back on March 8, 2011. As President Obama...
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